Eiji Wakasugi

Inferno of Torture

Japan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their "production"....

Love and Crime

A series of short stories about bizarre crimes committed by females in the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa Eras. Disco...

Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War

Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led t...

Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love

A Japanese woman is raped by her boyfriend day in day out.

Hana no shôgai

In 1842, in the Umemoku Mansion within Hikone Castle, Naosuke Ii, despite the tumultuous times, was engrossed i...

The Prickly-Mouthed Geisha Goes to Sado

Koharu, a flamboyant geisha, unexpectedly wins a trip to Sado Island in a TV contest. She is accompanied by thr...

The Yellow Climate

Based on the mystery novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

Beautiful Tengu

During the tumultuous end of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Tengu Party rose in rebellion in Mito. Friends from th...

The Bronze Monster

In this four part mystery-adventure, detective Kogoro Akechi and the members of the Boy Detectives Club must ca...

Storming Osaka Castle: The Sanada Ten Braves

After defeat in the Battle of Skigahara, Yukimura Sanada and his Ten Braves scatter across the country to spy i...

Kagebôshi: The Shadow Avenger

For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun...

Subarashiki shōtai

1955 Japanese movie

Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War

Denshichi Torimonocho: Senryo Human Skin

In the era of the twelfth Shogun, Tokugawa Ieyoshi, a notorious bandit known as "Shippu" (or "Swift Wind") emer...

快盗三人吉三

On March 11 in the seventh year of Tenpo (1836), a monk named Bennō, who fell in love with a geisha named Oshim...

Holiday in Japan

Japanese comedy film released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.

八州遊侠伝 白鷺三味線

Hatamoto Ooka Gentaro was deeply committed to a future with a beautiful girl named Omachi, a relationship facil...

Dreaming People

Shinya Ban (Masao Wakahara) returns from the south and is deeply disappointed when he learns that his mutual fr...

Kyūkon sannin musume

1954 Japanese movie

Monster with Twenty Faces

Edogawa Rampo's famous detective, part 1

Ōedo kenka matsuri

1961 Japanese movie

The Bronze Devil

A steel-clad fiend terrorizes Tokyo, raiding clock shops. Detective Kogoro Akechi uncovers a map hidden in a pr...

The Missing Heir

Ginpei, in an act of desperation to get money for his gravely ill mother, was laughed at and ended up fighting...

関八州喧嘩陣

1958 jidaigeki directed by Masaki Mori for Shintoho.

Shikeishû no shôri

1957 crime film directed by Toshio Shimura for Shintoho.

黒姫秘帳 前篇 奪われた鬼面、後篇 不知火の美女

In the Kyōhō era under the Tokugawa shogunate, a conspiracy to usurp the household unfolded at Shinshū Kurohime...

Bloody Account of Jirocho: Duel at Fujimi Pass

Bloody Account of Jirocho: Duel at Fujimi Pass

Poisonous Caress

A Pinku film from the independent production studio Kanto featuring a starring role for the former Japanese sex...

Red Castle Lullaby

Red Castle Lullaby by Taizō Fuyushima

Woman Diver's Terror

Chie, who's chosen as 'Ms. Woman Diver', and her friend Yuki, have been missing for several days after they lef...

Secret Play

Pink film from Kan Mukai.

浪曲国定忠治　血煙り信州路

1960 movie directed by Taizō Fuyushima